We've seen people come to power and make big changes quickly in real life, from a variety of cultures. It's not necessarily the culture itself that's at fault.
Could you name them? I'm trying to think of some that have had similarly abrupt changes in the totality of the culture, and I can't name any off the top of my head. Particularly when you keep in mind that there was no change in overall leadership, that all institutions maintained their former power, unlike in most coups or revolutions; that Sevanna's (legitimate) inheritance of the chief's role from Couladin was really the only change here, and as we're repeatedly told, a clan chief is not a wetlander king.
Provisional calendar for Towers of Midnight: https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=0ApFWTyzG9G_UdHZCUjQzVGNLeUJyMkUycXkzQlExSFE&output=html
I'm nervous.
- 08/12/2010 12:55:27 AM
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Aviendha's vision is utterly impossible.
- 08/12/2010 03:34:05 AM
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Fuck the Aiel and the White Tower. Go Team Seanchan!
- 08/12/2010 09:20:44 AM
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Eh?
- 08/12/2010 09:11:17 PM
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Peasants aren't slaves? Are you fucking kidding me?
- 08/12/2010 11:32:18 PM
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yes, but the Seanchan aren't keeping their culture to themselves
- 09/12/2010 12:17:36 AM
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- 09/12/2010 12:17:36 AM
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And Randlanders aren't forcing their beliefs on others?
- 09/12/2010 02:22:11 AM
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That's plain stupid...
- 09/12/2010 06:41:49 AM
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You call it "Invasion." They call it "The Return"
- 09/12/2010 08:21:00 AM
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Crap alert!
- 09/12/2010 01:26:37 PM
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Re: Crap alert!
- 10/12/2010 01:51:42 AM
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Re: Crap alert!
- 10/12/2010 02:25:25 AM
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If Britian has the resources or the desire to do so, then of course.
- 10/12/2010 07:10:15 AM
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Re: You call it "Invasion." They call it "The Return"
- 09/12/2010 03:49:10 PM
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Yes, this.
- 09/12/2010 07:17:52 PM
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Peasants aren't slaves.
- 09/12/2010 12:19:11 AM
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"But they were free men."
- 09/12/2010 06:20:10 AM
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By that definition, is there any such thing as freedom?
- 09/12/2010 07:32:42 AM
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Re: By that definition, is there any such thing as freedom?
- 09/12/2010 07:41:23 AM
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Re: By that definition, is there any such thing as freedom?
- 09/12/2010 08:23:03 AM
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Re: By that definition, is there any such thing as freedom?
- 09/12/2010 09:45:14 AM
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Re: By that definition, is there any such thing as freedom?
- 09/12/2010 06:39:16 PM
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Is there anything you'd like to correct about what you just said?
- 09/12/2010 07:43:56 PM
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~shrugs~ I prefer using "Peasant" rather than "Serf"
- 09/12/2010 08:06:19 AM
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They're really different things.
- 09/12/2010 08:26:26 AM
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Not really.
- 09/12/2010 08:40:32 AM
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Sure, if you insist on being wrong, it's not like I can stop you. *NM*
- 09/12/2010 06:41:18 PM
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They're the same thing, you're just being anal about it. *NM*
- 10/12/2010 01:42:28 AM
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If that is what you wish to believe.
- 10/12/2010 05:00:46 AM
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So.... you're saying the Peasant is the equivalent of a Marine Biologist in your example?
- 10/12/2010 07:03:32 AM
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gai'shain aren't really comparable to damane
- 08/12/2010 10:02:54 PM
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The Shaido made precedent, it's done. *NM*
- 08/12/2010 11:39:09 PM
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I disagree.
- 09/12/2010 07:22:36 AM
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Bullshit
- 09/12/2010 08:00:10 AM
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Reply to both
- 09/12/2010 08:23:08 AM
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Re: Reply to both
- 09/12/2010 10:03:26 AM
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Their culture was raped in the face, hard.
- 10/12/2010 02:10:46 AM
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Re: Their culture was raped in the face, hard.
- 10/12/2010 08:44:27 AM
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Er, just because something was done, doesn't mean it will become the norm.
- 09/12/2010 04:48:20 PM
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Re: Er, just because something was done, doesn't mean it will become the norm.
- 09/12/2010 05:53:24 PM
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I actually think her vision will prevent Rand from Bowing to Tuon
- 09/12/2010 04:53:25 PM
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